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Thursday, 16 October 2025
13 facts about tears
13 facts about tears
Multipurpose liquid
Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

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Amber
The majority of amber in use is between 30 to 90 millions years old.
Titan
Rains of liquid organic compounds, mainly methane, fall to the surface of the moon from clouds consisting of methane and ethane.
Typically, cloud cover does not exceed 1% of the moon's surface, but periodically it can increase up ...
Nicotine
Tobacco, whose leaves are the source of nicotine, was cultivated by people living in America two thousand years before its discovery by Columbus.
It came to Europe in the 16th century and both tobacco and the nicotine it contained were originally ...
Brain
Thanks to the word patterns stored in memory, a person is able to read the text in which the letters have been mixed.
It is enough for the first and last letters of a word to be in the correct place.
Anorexia Nervosa
Treatment of anorexia nervosa includes three main areas.
Restoring the sufferer to a healthy weight Treating the mental disorders associated with the illness Reducing or eliminating the behaviors or thoughts that originally led to the eating disorder
Ganymede
The Moon is the only one in the Solar System that has a dipole magnetic field capable of creating a magnetosphere.
Large Magellanic Cloud
Whether the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds orbit the Milky Way has not yet been definitively confirmed, as research conducted by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2006 may suggest that the speed of these objects is too high for our galaxy to support them.
Moon
It is the fifth largest moon in the solar system.
In size, it is second only to Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, and Io.
Milky Way
The center of our galaxy can be found in the constellation Sagittarius.
Unfortunately, it cannot be observed directly in the visible spectrum because it is obscured by clou ...
Cosmos
A memento of annihilation–the Chicxulub crater.
It is located on the Yucatan peninsula under the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The crater was formed ...